Correction to: European Journal of Human Genetics 18: 479–484; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2009.194; published online 4 November 2009

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors noticed that the superscript numbers 3 and 4 involving two different Estonia institutional affiliations and nine coauthor names were incorrectly assigned. The institutional affiliations for the following nine coauthors should be as follows:

Ildus Kutuev4,8

Mari Järve3,4

Gyaneshwer Chaubey3,4

Andrey Pshenichnov4,14

Oleg Balanovsky4,14

Nina Jeran4,15

Dubravka Havas Augustin4,15

Marian Baldovic4,16

Richard Villems3,4

3—Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

4—Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

The authors apologize for this mistake.